I swear that Regis is living in the future with how fast these card reviews are happening. The reveal video came out 10 minutes ago, how are you so fast?
He makes money doing this. It’s his job to be on top of the new stuff and news. See a change? Report it first and get higher ratings, views etc. The other tactic is to prerecord games/matches to have filler content through out the week too. It’s more work than people realize to be relevant in a saturated market.
Hear me out, Regis's voice is twice as high so he can record videos faster than anyone else and then slow them down for the watch time Play at 2x speed to hear the REAL Regis
I still see cards like Sky Mother Aviana and think "wow, that's sure to win you the fatigue game!" Then I remember that it has been years since control decks that just wait for their opponents to fatigue have been viable.
Fatigue is sometimes relevant in like... Uh, some Priest mirrors if they're both on Savala control stuff where any time you play something the opponent just cannabalizes it or whatever? But that... Does not affect the place of a Druid legendary, as it turns out.
already having two doll houses + 2 mini chia drakes gives you a 6 dmg sparkling phial, this makes owlonius cost 1 mana afterwards, so you'd still have 4 mana to maybe cast another sparkling phial that now does 12 dmg, and then you can play literally anything for free, even the titan to refresh to 10 mana and....
Also I'd imagine the "twice the bonus from spell damage" is for the rare case of some of those old mage cards that drew extra cards for your spell damage gaining bonuses, in something like duels maybe? And ensmallen is made for owlonius and wind up sapling, even one trade + ensmallen makes wind up sapling give you +1 mana or two ensmallens. and both of those cards in combination will be helping you for your otk, wind up sapling will always be in deck when you play ensmallen because of tradable as well.
I'm imagining a spell power OTK with Eonar. Get your spell damage so high that your sparkling phial allows you to play Eonar for free, then use Eonar to refresh your mana crystals so that you can send 10 mana worth of spells with like +8 spell damage to face. I was excited for Jade Display for a moment, but then I remembered that Druid's deathrattle package is rotating. With only just the two Jade Displays it would be hard to make it a good deck, but without those Castle Nathria cards it'll basically be impossible to make work.
@@synchronium24What do you mean, 'downside'? It isn't a downside at all. We got a neutral 1 mana 2/2 with no downside like 5 years ago, they weren't going to print a new 1 mana 2/2 with downside in 2023.
I think you might be undervaluing Wind-Up Saplings ability to give you an artificial "28 card deck". Assumably this Spell Damage package is going to be combo related- if you trade Sapling once its a 2 mana refresh 2 that can cycle at any point for additional value. Seems good for combo consistency? Not entirely sure though
Well its not really that crazy of a cycler compared to existing trade tools we have though, especially ones with very rewarding tech options like rustrot viper and the especially popular speaker stomper, which can actively buy time while you assemble a guaranteed wincon, compared to wind-up which is more of a brick at best without or after 1 cycle (free 2-1 doesnt really help with anything) and an innervate after 2 cycles of the *same copy*, very hard to justify investing 2 mana for 1 back for the combo
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Anivia is going to be a good card. You can hit a bunch of things you'd be happy for. Not to mention bottomless toy chest can potentially get what you want.
If control druid is at all a thing the next few years, then Aviana definitely has a place as a fatigue delayer. 10 extra draws and some of them might not suck.
I would guess Owlonius's "bonus" text is more in reference to spells that scale with spell damage without dealing damage (Such as the card draw from cram session)
Moonbeam was from Sunken City, so I think it rotated out of standard. Don't think the devs would print these spell damage cards with moonbeam still in standard.
You still have to trade it multiple times to refresh a respectable amount of mana, and that takes a while. A 1 cost refresh 2 mana sounds good in theory, but then you've got to consider that it's taking up a card slot (or 2) in your deck that could be used on something else, and it takes drawing it and trading it and drawing it again to get there (so now it's really a 2 cost refresh 2 mana). So even with ensmallen it's actually an X cost refresh X mana, where those X's are equal. Unless you play two ensmallens then it's X-1 cost refresh X mana, which does start to seem better.
2 seconds after seeing owlonius i already am wondering about an otk with that one legendary that draws a minion and turns everything into a copy of it. With all the token generation druid has..and quadruple double , wonder what will happen
Nah, those support cards are conditional on just having Spell Damage, while Owlonius will only increase the amount of damage. I still think it would be neat if Spell Damage was just a Spell bonus that also increased healing numbers, but alas
That'll only be viable in Wild though because Unending Swarm was part of March of the Lich King, which means it's rotating. Hedge Maze and Death Blossom Whomper would also be good for a Jade Display deck, but those are rotating too.
Druid as a whole and Shattered reflections is going to be a problem, is was scary on release and it’s nerf was only slight, with this new set and the mini keyword plus all this spell power support is gonna be unhealthy, shattered reflections even makes new aviana ok imo. I can see a deck being made or maybe using a token shell them using shattered with aviana to get 30 cost 1 legendaries after ripping through their deck
I think classes are getting more and more alike, losing class identity. I think that the Aviana feels like a Rogue card and I always associate Spell Damage with Mage and Shaman
These Druid cards will def be nerfed quick. The Dollhouse will end up with 2 mana and 2 uses, and the Owl will likely cost 8. Now that you can’t gain armor from pendant, 8 is going to be the target. JMO
Yeah I don't know what they were thinking with this location cost.. the only thing keeping spell damage in check was that you had to play it alongside your damage spells in the same turn. So not only do you take that away, you make it 1 fricking mana? Unreal.
I’m so sick of Druid consistently getting a bunch of cards that clearly all synergize together while the other classes get random things thrown together. 2017 vibes may be around the corner… they even made a small call back to Spreading Plague… yikes
they’ve always done this dude. they push archetypes for certain classes and see what happens. some get more support than others and that’s just how it’s always been. there’s still deck building aspects if you wanna refine a deck and make some super off meta
I swear that Regis is living in the future with how fast these card reviews are happening. The reveal video came out 10 minutes ago, how are you so fast?
I mean sorta, we just get the cards early. It's not just me.
@@RegisKillbin nay you are the flash
i prefer to belive you just record in 2 minutes
He makes money doing this. It’s his job to be on top of the new stuff and news. See a change? Report it first and get higher ratings, views etc. The other tactic is to prerecord games/matches to have filler content through out the week too. It’s more work than people realize to be relevant in a saturated market.
Hear me out, Regis's voice is twice as high so he can record videos faster than anyone else and then slow them down for the watch time
Play at 2x speed to hear the REAL Regis
I still see cards like Sky Mother Aviana and think "wow, that's sure to win you the fatigue game!" Then I remember that it has been years since control decks that just wait for their opponents to fatigue have been viable.
Fatigue is sometimes relevant in like... Uh, some Priest mirrors if they're both on Savala control stuff where any time you play something the opponent just cannabalizes it or whatever? But that... Does not affect the place of a Druid legendary, as it turns out.
@@thaddeusgenhelm8979 I mean priest can do priest things and randomly discover it from one of their like 3 titans they play
@@lrainwater1608 True, true, I guess it enhance the... RNG of the Svalna priest mirror?
Yaaaaay....
Any card in any game that multiplies a number instead of adding a number is a candidate for entirely busted
already having two doll houses + 2 mini chia drakes gives you a 6 dmg sparkling phial, this makes owlonius cost 1 mana afterwards, so you'd still have 4 mana to maybe cast another sparkling phial that now does 12 dmg, and then you can play literally anything for free, even the titan to refresh to 10 mana and....
Also I'd imagine the "twice the bonus from spell damage" is for the rare case of some of those old mage cards that drew extra cards for your spell damage gaining bonuses, in something like duels maybe?
And ensmallen is made for owlonius and wind up sapling, even one trade + ensmallen makes wind up sapling give you +1 mana or two ensmallens. and both of those cards in combination will be helping you for your otk, wind up sapling will always be in deck when you play ensmallen because of tradable as well.
@@jnorthey9good thing they're removing duels with the launch of this expansion lmao.
@@WaluTime really? 💀
I'm imagining a spell power OTK with Eonar. Get your spell damage so high that your sparkling phial allows you to play Eonar for free, then use Eonar to refresh your mana crystals so that you can send 10 mana worth of spells with like +8 spell damage to face.
I was excited for Jade Display for a moment, but then I remembered that Druid's deathrattle package is rotating. With only just the two Jade Displays it would be hard to make it a good deck, but without those Castle Nathria cards it'll basically be impossible to make work.
The best part of this weeks reviews is seeing how Regis gets less and less sick for every video he makes
The location with 3 mana swipe in core set scares me to my core
My first thought was token druid with Califero and Owlonious
snake oil gonna pop off.
Yep. Still stupid that they printed a 1 mana 2/2 with "downside" that is almost always massive upside.
@@synchronium24What do you mean, 'downside'? It isn't a downside at all. We got a neutral 1 mana 2/2 with no downside like 5 years ago, they weren't going to print a new 1 mana 2/2 with downside in 2023.
I think you might be undervaluing Wind-Up Saplings ability to give you an artificial "28 card deck". Assumably this Spell Damage package is going to be combo related- if you trade Sapling once its a 2 mana refresh 2 that can cycle at any point for additional value. Seems good for combo consistency? Not entirely sure though
Well its not really that crazy of a cycler compared to existing trade tools we have though, especially ones with very rewarding tech options like rustrot viper and the especially popular speaker stomper, which can actively buy time while you assemble a guaranteed wincon, compared to wind-up which is more of a brick at best without or after 1 cycle (free 2-1 doesnt really help with anything) and an innervate after 2 cycles of the *same copy*, very hard to justify investing 2 mana for 1 back for the combo
I will note that Druid is also getting Swipe back (@ 3 mana too) and with the spell power stuff, it seems like easy board clears for Druid.
Really noble of Blizzard to support the environment by making Druids consistently OP
The location is just that 2/2 kobold that’s technically immune and you can have it whenever you need it for free
that wind up sapling is how the OTK works, for sure. idk if its worth doing though
Jade deficit. 😆Waiting for Jerome Powell to address how we can reduce spell power inflation and therefor resolve the Jade deficit.
I really enjoyed spell damage Hunter last year. I wonder if Druid gets some good support for it in the future as well
Wind-up Sapling in combo. Helps find the pieces, and then fuels the combo turn.
Hey Regis, first time comment and wanted to say I loved the duels vids you always had and have stuck around ever since those. Hope Regina is doing good and I have my third one on the way and there’s nothing quite like having kids. I hope you are enjoying being a father! Cheers!
Take a shot everytime Regis says “spell damage”
I'll call it right now: Oaken Jades. Recruit those bad boys!
Aviana plus ensmallen is 10 free legendary minions. Odin will sadly still be around and druid can gain armor faster than warriors
Anivia is going to be a good card. You can hit a bunch of things you'd be happy for.
Not to mention bottomless toy chest can potentially get what you want.
I played this game from launch until like 2 years ago…I’ll come back for JADE THO
I'm seeing a spell damage token deck with Colifero and Owlonius.
If control druid is at all a thing the next few years, then Aviana definitely has a place as a fatigue delayer. 10 extra draws and some of them might not suck.
I would guess Owlonius's "bonus" text is more in reference to spells that scale with spell damage without dealing damage (Such as the card draw from cram session)
Sparkling phial seems like it's in a very similar spot as glacial advance on release. Will definitely see some play
if you get a discount or innervate on owlonius and get 2 of the dollhouses down, you could 2x phial into 2x moonbeam for 42 damage, not too shabby.
Moonbeam was from Sunken City, so I think it rotated out of standard. Don't think the devs would print these spell damage cards with moonbeam still in standard.
@@sirhoovythesandvichdispens6309 Say hello to snakeoil?
@@sirhoovythesandvichdispens6309 Another day another druid deck to curbstomp wild
Sapling with ensmallen is now 1 cost refresh X mana. That in itself is much better. Maybe ?
You still have to trade it multiple times to refresh a respectable amount of mana, and that takes a while. A 1 cost refresh 2 mana sounds good in theory, but then you've got to consider that it's taking up a card slot (or 2) in your deck that could be used on something else, and it takes drawing it and trading it and drawing it again to get there (so now it's really a 2 cost refresh 2 mana). So even with ensmallen it's actually an X cost refresh X mana, where those X's are equal. Unless you play two ensmallens then it's X-1 cost refresh X mana, which does start to seem better.
I think ensmallen is good for cards that cost 5 or more.
2 seconds after seeing owlonius i already am wondering about an otk with that one legendary that draws a minion and turns everything into a copy of it. With all the token generation druid has..and quadruple double , wonder what will happen
Druid finally has access to the most overpowered thing hearthstone has ever seen. Snake oil OTK!
Skymother and jepetto are gonna be awesome!
I've said it before, but someone in the dev team really love Druid. Every expansion for close to 10 years they are getting completely busted stuff.
Nah, those support cards are conditional on just having Spell Damage, while Owlonius will only increase the amount of damage. I still think it would be neat if Spell Damage was just a Spell bonus that also increased healing numbers, but alas
i would probably just stick aviana in a single dragon deck, for fatigue
Oh look, it prophet velen but for druid
i have over 6400 druid wins i have crazy ideas for new set cards,btw dont forget malfurion's gift :D
Remembering Druid has that Ressurrect minions that cost 2 or less in it's pool. Imagine that late for 7 Jades :>
That'll only be viable in Wild though because Unending Swarm was part of March of the Lich King, which means it's rotating. Hedge Maze and Death Blossom Whomper would also be good for a Jade Display deck, but those are rotating too.
@@WadeAllen001 ah, you're right, my bad.
Dollhouse is gonna be nerfed to 3 mana 4 dur real quick.
Why on god's green Earth is Druid of all classes getting a new Academic Espionage INSTEAD OF ROGUE
Yeah sure, give the class that can cheat up 20 mana a minion that can literally kill the enemy Hero from hand with enough mana
I believe that the hero card is rotating. But still scary cards.
What happens to Thalnos when hit with ensmallen? Become a 1 mana 1/1 or immediately die as a 1 mana 0/0?
It doesn't reduce the minion's Health, just their attack. It would just be a 1/0/1 that can't attack without help.
It would reduce their atk by 1 and mana by 1. It doesn't affect health.
It would be a 1 mana 0/1
Druid as a whole and Shattered reflections is going to be a problem, is was scary on release and it’s nerf was only slight, with this new set and the mini keyword plus all this spell power support is gonna be unhealthy, shattered reflections even makes new aviana ok imo. I can see a deck being made or maybe using a token shell them using shattered with aviana to get 30 cost 1 legendaries after ripping through their deck
Druid may have lost Moonfire but it gained the 1 mana 2/2 Deathrattle: (Get that 0 mana spell that deals 0 dmg)
Yes.
Why did druid get all the most interesting cards. Especially for wild I'm going to use all of these
Is this not like… the second class to have their cards revealed?
Jade Display is just a Bottom feeder without beast synergy isn´t it?
Wow snake oil is going to be amazing
Is Chia Drake +1 spell damage for the rest of the game?
no
The minion gets +1 spell damage. Still probably good though.
I'm sorry but idk why they even make combo--y cards like this. As soon as its good it'll get nerfed lol
ngl this spell dmg package for Druid looks boring as. Aviana looks cool at least
12:10 Can it get titans tho??
no.
No they said titans can't be generated from cards like that. There's still plenty of good legendaries for it.
cool UN conference in Nairobi last night btw. VERY productive meetings, and a special musical guest known as the "Ghetto Orchestra"
I think all those 4 stars cards really are 5 stars
I think classes are getting more and more alike, losing class identity. I think that the Aviana feels like a Rogue card and I always associate Spell Damage with Mage and Shaman
Others are too Sl-Owlonius 🦉
Jade display doesn't match the pace of Priest Automoton
Reno deletes locations :)
I feel like druid always gets these broken cards and than gets hit by nerfs 😂
great, even more obnoxious and horrible to play against cards for druid!
These Druid cards will def be nerfed quick. The Dollhouse will end up with 2 mana and 2 uses, and the Owl will likely cost 8. Now that you can’t gain armor from pendant, 8 is going to be the target. JMO
Yeah I don't know what they were thinking with this location cost.. the only thing keeping spell damage in check was that you had to play it alongside your damage spells in the same turn. So not only do you take that away, you make it 1 fricking mana? Unreal.
so early no one will know i like men
Too bad ;)
Love Ya Regis but I don’t trust your card reviews as much when I haven’t seen you playing this game
Trust them for what?
Ensmallen + the Aviana = ten 0-Cost legendaries? Don't know how good it is, but the potential seems stupid.
It will be good. You would need draw but it should be good. Particularly since you can grab them with toy chest.
WHY does Druid get so much good stuff EVERY SINGLE EXPANSION?!?! I'm tired of them having cheat mechanic at all times
JADE JADE JADE JADE JADE
I’m so sick of Druid consistently getting a bunch of cards that clearly all synergize together while the other classes get random things thrown together. 2017 vibes may be around the corner… they even made a small call back to Spreading Plague… yikes
Snake oil druid lmao
Ok, druid is gonna be busted
I miss deck building. They just release pre-made decks.
they’ve always done this dude. they push archetypes for certain classes and see what happens. some get more support than others and that’s just how it’s always been. there’s still deck building aspects if you wanna refine a deck and make some super off meta
This has been a thing forever, wanna test your skills? Make your own meta breaking decks, only great players are able to
Nice! More OTK stupid stuff...
First aye
Druids cards are trash again hearthstone is dead for druid therefore I main druid wtf blizzard
second :^)